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Re: GCC 4.3 target deprecation proposals
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > DJGPP,
>
> Please don't deprecate this. It's actively used, but the test harness
> doesn't run under DJGPP so testing it is difficult. I don't think
> we've *ever* run the testsuite for it.
>
> > s390x-ibm-tpf*
>
> Similar. TPF is cross, and there's no simulators, so no test results,
> yet still active.
In that case these targets are something like SymbianOS (where the
compiler can be used through a Symbian SDK, but the *-*-symbianelf*
compiler can't be tested directly). But this was a list of targets I
suspect are used and am not proposing to deprecate but that lack test
coverage.
Cross targets can be tested on hardware without simulators (with
appropriate board files), even if some have particular difficulties in
testing. Some of the OSes listed have had patches submitted in the past
year that have been tested on them (using cross compilers and suitable
board files for testing on hardware). Others such as OpenBSD I expect are
largely used in native configurations.
> > -pe targets are not being tested either);
>
> That would be cygwin, for i686 ;-)
That's being tested. WinCE was on the list of those OSes lacking test
coverage. I meant generic targets mcore-*-pe* and arm-*-pe* (since I see
[34567]86-*-pe is really an alias for Cygwin).
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